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    ‘Ultrabroadband’ 6G Chip Clocks Speeds 10 Times Faster Than 5G

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    1. sciencealert on

      Submission statement:

      Engineers in China and the US have demonstrated a 6G chip that can provide internet speeds of over 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). That’s 10 times faster than [5G](https://www.sciencealert.com/5g)’s theoretical limit – and close to 500 times faster than its average speed.

      Although 6G communications networks aren’t expected to start rolling out until the 2030s, the groundwork needs to be laid well in advance.

      We’ve already seen a few prototypes hit these [kinds of speeds](https://www.sciencealert.com/new-6g-wireless-tech-is-500-times-faster-than-average-5g-smartphones), but not usually as efficiently as the new chip, which was developed by scientists at Peking University and the City University of Hong Kong in China and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

      Do you think it’s realistic we’ll see 6G roll out within the next 5 years?

    2. Jboswell23 on

      What’s the range on this wireless connection? 2 millimeters and is blocked by a piece of paper?

    4. En-TitY_ on

      Wouldn’t be surprised if it gets throttled in some way.  No way providers would allow anyone those speed. 

    6. Ok-disaster2022 on

      Gonna be honest, I barely understand the need for 5g mobile speeds. Don’t get me wrong if on the carrier side they support even more clients and manage the bandwidth better fine. It’s just I tend not to use a lot of data. In the house though sure, I sort of get that. But also besides massive game downloads I have no clue why I would need more download speed regularly. 

      Again I understand industrial uses are something else entirely. 

    9. MAXSuicide on

      I watched a B movie horror many years ago, the premise of which was that our broadband got so broad and wide, it tuned in to the ghost realm. The spirits were of course angry – and hungry.

      Humanity were thus forced out of the cities and into rural refugee camps, where one could get no signal.

      Is 6G going to kill us all?!? 

    10. iamonelegend on

      Neat, my phone heats up if I stream Youtube at 4K on 5G, so I’d imagine that this will just set it ablaze.

    11. rshanks on

      Not an expert, but it seems like the goal should mostly be better performance on sub 6 frequencies (ideally, better performance with the same channel width too).

      It doesn’t seem that surprising that aggregating more spectrum in could achieve higher speeds, but there’s a limited amount of spectrum that can do things like go through walls.

    12. RampageRalph89 on

      I can barely get a strong 4G in most of Atlantic Canada, it’ll be a miracle to get 6G when it comes out.

    13. Franklin_le_Tanklin on

      I don’t see a need for this. Heck, I didn’t see any noticeable difference from 4g lte to 5g on my phone. Videos and scrolling is instant as it is.

    14. kconfire on

      Doesn’t matter when I still don’t even get the full 4G LTE speed in many parts of New Jersey. 😂

    15. Sirisian on

      For reference, this is still 10x slower than what’s expected to be the deployed speed of 1 tbps. As the article mentions this is in the 2030s, so it’s an iterative development.

    17. Zatetics on

      We’re not really bottlenecked by internet speed anymore for normal person phone use.

      I’m all for faster for the sake of faster, but if we could fix the abundance of javascript that loads in with every web page thatd be great. Aint no legitimate reason a news article page should be 150MB. It’s some text and a couple images. Chill with the crawlers and clickthroughs, and scrolling advert shit.

    18. ThePirateCondor on

      10x faster but the files are 8k resolution so they are 100x larger so the phone is slower. That’s only on the perfect kind of WiFi by the way, cell signals still suck worse than 2010